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The Club of Queer Trades by G K Chesterton (Paperback, 2006)

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. As an author he created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and produced several notable works on apologetics including Orthodoxy (1908) and The Everlasting Man (1925). He routinely referred to himself as an 'orthodox' Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. He was born in Kensington, educated at St Paul's School, and later attended the Slade School of Art, a department of University College London, to become an illustrator. He also took classes in literature at UCL but did not complete a degree in either subject. His first positions were within publishing houses, during which time he also became a freelance art and literary critic, and in 1902 the Daily News gave him a weekly opinion column, followed in 1905 by a weekly column in the London Illustrated News for which he continued to write for the next 30 years. In 1901 he married Frances Blogg who played a large role in his career as amanuensis and personal manager. Throughout the course of his career Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4,000 essays, and several plays. His writings consistently displayed wit and a sense of humour, and he would often employ paradox while making serious comments on the world, politics, economics, philosophy, theology, and many other topics.The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of six stories published together in book form in 1905. Each story is centred on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means, thus gaining admittance to the very exclusive Club. The framing narrative is by 'Cherub' Swinburne who is on a quest to discover the secret of the Club of Queer Trades, in which venture he is assisted by his friend Basil Grant, a retired judge, and Basil's younger brother Rupert, a private detective. Each of the stories describes their encounter with one of the trades, with the mystery of the Club finally unveiled in the final story, The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady.

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The Club of Queer Trades
Author
G K Chesterton
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Paperback
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Literary Theory
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2006
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92 Pages

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229mm
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145g

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